Small Quotes - page 4

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come. (Joseph Chamberlain)
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. View quote
Edward Coke
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. View quote
Václav Havel
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children. View quote
Nicole Kidman
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. View quote
Carl Sagan
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. (Douglas Adams)
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. View quote
Douglas Adams
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. View quote
Martha Graham
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. View quote
Robert Collier
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. View quote
Victor Hugo
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. (Vincent van Gogh)
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. View quote
Henry Kissinger
It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. View quote
Edmund Wilson
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